Student Handbook - The Taft School

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RESIDENTIAL LIFE EVENING HOURS & INTERDORM VISITATION Evening hours at Taft begin at 7:00 p.m. and end at “lights out” for each of the respective classes. During this time, dormitory faculty will be present in the dormitory, ensuring an environment that is conducive to productive study hall conditions. Supervised evening room study is held from 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. (8:00 to 9:45 p.m. for uppermids) every evening that is followed by a class day. During study hours, all students must be in their rooms or at one of the allowed locations. Study hours are a sacred time; therefore, it is important that quiet be maintained throughout campus. Students are not to gather in the halls or public areas of the school, but rather are expected to go to their destinations quickly and quietly. Because Taft places high value on individual responsibility, we believe in instilling more responsibility in our students as they progress through their Taft educational experience. One of the most defining individual responsibilities at Taft is the opportunity to Interdorm. The purpose of Interdorm Visitation is to allow students to visit friends of the opposite gender in a comfortable setting, analogous to visiting in the living room of a family home. Although the comparison between a living room and a student’s room in the dormitory has limits, the spirit of this analogy should be a guiding principle for students’ behavior. The Interdorm Visitation privilege is extended only to Taft students. Alumni and students not enrolled at the school are not permitted in the dormitories without the permission of the dean of students. Any of the following will be considered a violation of the sign-in procedures with regard to Interdorm Visitation. 1. Allowing someone without proper permission to be in a room during Interdorm Visitation. 2. Visiting a room other than your host’s room. 3. Closing a door while visiting. 4. Failure to sign in or sign out properly and in a timely fashion with the faculty member on duty. Failure to comply with the sign-in provisions of the visitation privilege will be considered a violation of sign-in procedure and will result in 5 conduct grades and loss of the privilege for two weeks for the first offense. Visiting at a time when visitation is not allowed or violation of the sign-in procedures for a second time is a violation of the school’s Fundamental Rule regarding Interdorm Visitation. 34 The Taft School
Lower School Evening Routine 7:00–7:50 p.m. Interdorming • Middlers - Begins after Long Weekend in the fall for students who complete proper paperwork. - Mids may visit in uppermid, mid or lowermid rooms of students of the opposite sex from 7:00 p.m. until 7:50 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday and Friday nights. - Mids can only visit with lower mids during the second semester. • Lower Middlers - Begins after the first semester for students who complete proper paperwork. - Lowermids may visit in mid or lowermid rooms of students of the opposite sex from 7:00 p.m. until 7:50 p.m. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday nights. • A faculty member must be present in the dormitory if visiting is to take place. • Hosts and their guests must sign in, in person, with the faculty member on duty in the dormitory being visited and must sign out with that faculty member when departing. • Guests may sign in only to the room of their host. • The door to the student’s room must be kept ajar by a standard Taft-issue trash bin. • Students should expect faculty or other students to drop by at any time. • Hosts and their guests must sign out, in person, with the faculty member on duty in the dormitory being visited. • There are no visitation privileges on any nights of long weekends. 8:00–10:00 p.m. Lower School Study Hall & Room Inspections • Doors must remain open during study hall. • Rooms inspections will be held Monday through Friday. - beds made - floors cleared and cleaned - trash emptied - open food removed from room - closets straightened • Instant Messenger access is turned off. • Students may not use computers for e-mail, instant messaging, or Internet surfing except with permission from the faculty member on duty. • Students may ask the permission of the faculty on duty to sign out to the library, faculty apartments, computer labs, language lab, academic center, writing center, counseling offices or Math Table. Permission will be granted to lower schoolers only if the faculty member on duty has been given advance notice by a faculty member. Students wishing special permission to go anywhere except the above destinations must receive permission from their class dean. The lowermid deans may require some lowermids to study in a supervised room during study hall. • Students who sign out during study hall must sign back in by 9:45 p.m. RESIDENTIAL LIFE Student Handbook 2010–11 35
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